The super PAC, Forward Majority, is pouring the money into 18 races that will likely determine which party controls the lower chamber in January.
2020 elections
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Texas 2020 Elections
In Texas, Republicans fight voting by mail expansion while encouraging their voters to use it
What was once a lightly used and largely uncontroversial voting option in Texas, one even Republicans relied on, is now the crux of the latest fight over who gets to vote and, equally as crucial in a pandemic, who has access to safe voting.
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Texas 2020 Elections
In Texas, President Trump’s team hits the road to shore up support
The president’s reelection campaign launched a bus tour of the state Thursday, though surrogates said — strenuously — that they still don’t see Texas in play.
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Coronavirus in Texas
Analysis: Voting in Texas could be as easy as a trip to the grocery store
Some of the biggest private-sector companies in Texas adapted quickly to customer service during the pandemic. Unfortunately, they’re not in charge of voting.
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Coronavirus in Texas
Analysis: With schools opening, Texas enters a critical two weeks of the pandemic
Texas is poised right now as it was in late April: COVID-19 numbers are moving in the right direction, and reopenings — schools this time — are underway. Everyone’s hoping for a different result this time.
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Coronavirus in Texas
Pandemic politics ripple through Texas races, forcing U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw to defend his coronavirus response
In Crenshaw’s bid for reelection, the fight over masks and rhetoric has become particularly pitched, drawing in dozens of Houston-area doctors.
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Texas sues Harris County to stop it from sending all voters applications for mail-in ballots
The Texas secretary of state had threatened the legal action last week, but Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins indicated he would not drop his effort to send out absentee ballot applications to more than 2 million registered voters.
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Coronavirus in Texas
Analysis: Some Texas voters are still uncertain, but so are the issues
Voters who still haven’t decided which candidates to support in November might be uncertain for a good reason: The issues that would help them decide — pandemic, recession and all the rest — are shifting rapidly.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Four candidates join Shelley Luther, Drew Springer in race to replace state Sen. Pat Fallon
Springer, a state representative, and Luther, a Dallas salon owner who was jailed over her refusal to close her business due to the coronavirus pandemic, had previously announced their campaigns.
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Texas tells Harris County to halt plan to send all voters applications for mail-in ballots
The secretary of state’s office threatened legal action against Harris County if it goes ahead with a plan to send applications for mail-in ballots to more than 2 million registered voters.
